Perfect Time to Let Go

 

 

What Happens After Death?

The process is realizing that you and I exist on more than one plane of awareness simultaneously and on one plane suffering stinks, and on another plane suffering is grace.

And the question is, “Can you balance those two things in your consciousness?
Ram Dass

As a child, death was a messy affair.  The cat shred a bird to pieces or a dog got smashed by a car.  Adults talked about surgeries and death while the news on television showed guns and knives.  History books weren't much better as they related wars, bombings, and horrible destruction.

 

Our culture grooms us with ideas of death being something to fear.  Even religion teaches us very early on of the persecution of Jesus the Christ and Bible stories filled with violence.  When an elder dies, many times the young children are sectioned off from services as they are deemed not able to understand.  So  then young minds are left to imagine why great uncle Ernie went "pfft" in the sky.

 

When we personally experience death and emotion overwhelms, it is challenging to find appropriate words to give meaning to the end of life; and yet all things die.  We are never really prepared to let a loved one die.  There is also an undeserved harshness to ourselves if we adjust and begin to move on with this challenge of living, forgetting even for a brief time our loss.

 

I never understood the Native American saying, "It is a good day to die," until the last few years.   Nature brings us a day that is picture perfect, we experience oneness with all things, and we feel unconditionally loved all in one sequence.  Indeed, a perfect time to let go when happiness is aligned.

 

Nature repeatedly displays birth, life, and death and in many cases rebirth.  The seasons also demonstrate a cycle symbolic of life itself.  The sun comes up and the sun goes down just as the moon continues to float across the sky.  The Supreme Power ... who ever we deem that to be, he or she, goddess or god, universe or galactic being, ... takes such implicit care to create each snow flake as unique, could hardly just not be involved in the crossing over.

 

The concepts of angels, runners, spiritual guides, sprites, fairies, appearances of Mother Mary, and the resurrection of Jesus the Christ surely give some foundation for the hope of a tomorrow, once out  of physical form.  Documented near death experiences surely germinate hopeful re-thinking of life after death.

 

Perhaps the true focus, all along, needs to be based on the idea of ending challenge and returning to the Creator (he or she) as a celebration.  If we can at least down play the fear aspect of death, and believe we all will be reunited through the passing of death, would we not all be more at ease.  Be happy that our loved one is at long last united and safe with all there is in spite of our selves suffering the loss as we are left behind.  To continue our converstation with those who pass, as they monitor us from the other side.